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| birth_place = [[Shillong]], [[Meghalaya]], India
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| occupation = Writer, journalist, social activist
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| known for = Social activism, writings
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| awards = [[Padma Shri]] [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons]] ONE India Award [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry|FICCI]] FLO Award UN Brahma Soldier of Humanity Award [[Siva Prasad Barooah National Award]] North East Excellence Award
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'''Patricia Mukhim''' is an Indian social activist, writer, journalist<ref name="BBC">{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6215497.stm | title=Cash boost for tribal families | first=Subir | last=Bhaumik | publisher=BBC | date=10 January 2007 | access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="NSAB">{{cite web | url=http://www.nsab.gov.in/?1003 | title=NSAB | publisher=Government of India | date=2014 | access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> and the editor of ''[[Shillong Times]]'',<ref name=hindu20201118>{{cite news|newspaper=The Hindu|url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/the-shillong-times-editor-patricia-mukhim-resigns-from-editors-guild-of-india/article33122911.ece?homepage=true|title=The Shillong Times editor Patricia Mukhim resigns from Editors Guild of India |date=18 November 2020|access-date=18 November 2020|agency=PTI}}</ref> known for her social activism.<ref name="Faced with changing times">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/faced-with-changing-times/article4428449.ece | title=Faced with changing times | publisher=The Hindu | date=19 February 2013 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> A recipient of honours such as [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons|Chameli Devi Jain award]],<ref name="E Pao">{{cite web | url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=features.Attributes_of_Women_from_NE.Patricia_Mukhim | title=E Pao | publisher=E Pao | date=2014 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> ONE India award,<ref name="Shillong Times">{{cite web | url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2014/12/30/patricia-mukhim-receives-o-n-e-india-award/ | title=Shillong Times | publisher=Shillong Times | date=2014 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry]] FLO award, Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity award,<ref name="The Hindu">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/patricia-mukhim-receives-u-n-brahma-award/article1256523.ece | title=The Hindu | publisher=The Hindu | date=12 May 2008 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> [[Siva Prasad Barooah National Award|Siva Prasad Barooah National award]] and North East Excellence award,<ref name="Indianict">{{cite web | url=http://www.indianict.com/nict12/pdf/shillong/Patricia_Mukhim.pdf | title=Indianict | publisher=Indianict | date=2014 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> she was honored by the [[Government of India]], in 2000, with the fourth highest [[Indian honours system|Indian civilian award]] of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2014 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref>

==Biography==
{{quotebox|align = left|width=21em|''It is no secret that a good chunk of development funds go to the coffers of sundry militant outfits'', says Patricia Mukhim, about the militancy in the [[Northeast India]].<ref name="Economic Consequences of Insurgency in the North East">{{cite journal | url=http://www.asthabharati.org/Dia_Apr08/das.htm | title=Economic Consequences of Insurgency in the North East | author=H. N. Das | journal=Dialogue |date=April 2008 | volume=9 | issue=4}}</ref>}}
Patricia Mukhim was born in [[Shillong]], the capital city of the Northeast Indian state of [[Meghalaya]]. She is known to have had a difficult childhood as her parents divorced when she was young and was brought up by her single mother.<ref name="North East Monologues">{{cite web | url=http://www.northeastmonologues.com/viewarticles/details/30/Culture | title=North East Monologues | publisher=North East Monologues | date=4 January 2012 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Mode Shift">{{cite web | url=http://modeshift.org/419/shillong-times-courageous-editor-patricia-mukhim-wins-national-hearing-on-coal-mine-safety/ | title=Mode Shift | publisher=Mode Shift | date=2014 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> She did her schooling and college education in Shillong and secured graduate degrees in Arts (BA) and education (BEd).<ref name="E Pao" /> She started her career as a teacher but turned to journalism in 1987 as a correspondent and, since 2008,<ref name="Mode Shift" /> is the editor of the [[Shillong Times]],<ref name="E Pao" /><ref name="Shillong Times" /> the first English language daily in Meghalaya.<ref name="Indianict" /><ref name="Control Arms Foundation of India">{{cite web | url=http://in.boell.org/sites/default/files/downloads/PROFILE_OF_SPEAKERS.pdf | title=Control Arms Foundation of India | publisher=Control Arms Foundation of India | date=2014 | access-date=30 December 2014}}</ref> She also contributes articles to other publications such as [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]],<ref name="Indianict" /> [[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]],<ref name="Control Arms Foundation of India" /><ref name="Killing fields of Northeast">{{cite press release | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090622/jsp/northeast/story_11135705.jsp | title=Killing fields of Northeast | publisher=The Telegraph | date=22 June 2009 | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}</ref><ref name="Northeast Echoes">{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140203/jsp/northeast/story_17860864.jsp | title=Northeast Echoes | work=News article | date=3 February 2014 | agency=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}</ref><ref name="One region, many visions">{{cite news | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050215/asp/northeast/story_4381226.asp | title=One region, many visions | work=News article | date=15 February 2014 | agency=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}</ref> [[Eastern Panorama]] and [[The North East Times]].<ref name="E Pao" /><ref name="Women's Regional Network">{{cite web | url=http://www.womensregionalnetwork.org/about-us/bios/ | title=Women's Regional Network | publisher=Women's Regional Network | date=2014 | access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref><ref name="Journalism Mentor">{{cite web | url=http://journalismmentor.in/mentors/ | title=Journalism Mentor | publisher=Journalism Mentor | date=2014 | access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref>

Patricia Mukhim is the founder of ''Shillong, We Care'' a [[non governmental organization]] which was involved in the fight against militancy in Meghalaya.<ref name="Shillong Times" /><ref name="Indianict" /> She was a member of the [[National Security Advisory Board]] of the [[Government of India]]<ref name="NSAB" /><ref name="Indianict" /> and served as a member of the National Foundation for Communal Harmony, under the [[Ministry of Home Affairs (India)|Ministry of Home Affairs, India]].<ref name="Indianict" /><ref name="Control Arms Foundation of India" /><ref name="Women's Regional Network" /><ref name="Journalism Mentor" /> She sits on the education board of the [[Indian Institute of Mass Communication]].<ref name="Shillong Times" />

Mukhim is the director of ''Indigenous Women's Resource Centre'', Shillong<ref name="Faced with changing times" /><ref name="Academiepansophia">{{cite web | url=http://www.academiepansophia.nl/files/Report_Conference_St_Gallen_May_2011.pdf | title=Academiepansophia | publisher=Academiepansophia | date=13 May 2011 | access-date=31 December 2014}}</ref> and was involved with the District Consumer Forum, East Khasi Hills District, as a member,<ref name="E Pao" /> the State Commission for Consumer Affairs as a member,<ref name="Academiepansophia" /> with the Centre of North East Studies and policy research (CNES) as its Trustee<ref name="NSAB" /> and with Indo Global Service Society as its vice president.<ref name="Indianict" /> She sits on the board of ''Women's Regional Network'', a cross border women's forum involving women from the [[Indian subcontinent]].<ref name="Women's Regional Network" /><ref name="Journalism Mentor" /> A former member of Meghalaya Planning Board,<ref name="NSAB" /> Mukhim is also an advisor to the North Eastern Institute of Development Studies (NEIDS).<ref name="Academiepansophia" />

Mukhim is credited with several articles on the socio-political milieu of Meghalaya.<ref name="Hell of a development">{{cite press release | url=http://meghalayamining.wordpress.com/ | title=Hell of a development | publisher=Burning Issue | date=3 November 2010 | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}</ref><ref name="Why is Meghalaya Police floundering?">{{cite news | url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2013/06/28/why-is-meghalaya-police-floundering/ | title=Why is Meghalaya Police floundering? | work=News article | date=28 June 2013 | agency=[[Shillong Times]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}</ref> She has contributed a chapter to book on [[matriarchy]] by [[Heide Göttner-Abendroth]]<ref name="Faced with changing times" /> under the title, ''Khasi matrilineal society - Challenges in the 21st century''<ref name="Khasi matrilineal society - Challenges in the 21st century">{{cite book | url=http://matriarchy.info/index.php | access-date=6 March 2017 | title=Khasi matrilineal society - Challenges in the 21st century | publisher=The Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies | author=Patricia Mukhim | year=2005}}</ref> and is working on a book, ''When Hens Crow''.<ref name="Faced with changing times" /> She has attended many conferences and seminars<ref name="Faced with changing times" /> in places such as Japan, Thailand, Hawaii, Switzerland, Palestine, Israel, North and South Korea, UK, and the African continent and has delivered keynote addresses.<ref name="E Pao" /><ref name="Indianict" /> She has also appeared on several television and radio programs.<ref name="E Pao" />

Patricia Mukhim is a divorcee and has three children, two of her children having died earlier.<ref name="Mode Shift" />

==Awards and recognition==
Patricia Mukhim received the Chameli Devi Jain Award in 1996 from the Media Foundation, New Delhi.<ref name="Indianict" /><ref name="Women's Regional Network" /><ref name="Journalism Mentor" /> The [[Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry]] (FICCI) conferred on her their FLO award for excellence in journalism in 2008.<ref name="Indianict" /><ref name="Women's Regional Network" /><ref name="Journalism Mentor" /> A few months later, in 2008, she received the Upendra Nath Brahma Soldier of Humanity award.<ref name="The Hindu" /><ref name="Indianict" /> The next year, in 2009, she received the [[Siva Prasad Barooah National Award]].<ref name="Indianict" /> One year later, the [[Government of India]] included her in the [[Indian honours system|Republic Day honours]] list for the civilian award of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards" /><ref name="Mode Shift" /><ref name="Women's Regional Network" /><ref name="Journalism Mentor" /> In 2011, she was selected for the Northeast Excellence Award.<ref name="Indianict" /> She received the O.N.E. India award in 2014.<ref name="Shillong Times" /> In 1995, she was honoured with the [[Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediaperson]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://e-pao.net/epSubPageExtractor.asp?src=features.Attributes_of_Women_from_NE.Patricia_Mukhim|title=Patricia Mukhim|last=Oinam|first=G.S.|website=e-pao.net|access-date=9 March 2019}}</ref>

==See also==
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* [[Shillong Times]]
* [[National Security Council (India)]]
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{{portal|India}}

==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite book | url=http://matriarchy.info/index.php | title=Khasi matrilineal society - Challenges in the 21st century | publisher=The Second World Congress on Matriarchal Studies | author=Patricia Mukhim | year=2005}}
* {{cite press release | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090622/jsp/northeast/story_11135705.jsp | title=Killing fields of Northeast | publisher=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] | date=22 June 2009 | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}
* {{cite press release | url=http://meghalayamining.wordpress.com/ | title=Hell of a development | publisher=Burning Issue | date=3 November 2010 | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}
* {{cite news | url=http://www.theshillongtimes.com/2013/06/28/why-is-meghalaya-police-floundering/ | title=Why is Meghalaya Police floundering? | work=News article | date=28 June 2013 | agency=[[Shillong Times]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}
* {{cite news | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1140203/jsp/northeast/story_17860864.jsp | title=Northeast Echoes | work=News article | date=3 February 2014 | agency=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}
* {{cite news | url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1050215/asp/northeast/story_4381226.asp | title=One region, many visions | work=News article | date=15 February 2014 | agency=[[The Telegraph (Calcutta)|The Telegraph]] | access-date=31 December 2014 | author=Patricia Mukhim}}
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